STEP 271 I WILL ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY TODAY.

Accept responsibility, which is your ability to respond. Accept this, cultivate it, cherish it and welcome it. It is what will make you strong. It is what will make you devoted. It is what will bring to you the relationships you have always desired. This is the empowerment you so desperately need which you are learning now to claim for yourself. With this empowerment come the conditions for empowerment—that you respond to Knowledge and follow Knowledge, that you refrain from all motivations that are not born of Knowledge, that you become objective with yourself and your motives, that you question yourself without doubting yourself and that you surround yourself with individuals who can support the emergence of Knowledge within you and are free to tell you their own perceptions. This is essential for your well-being and development. This will protect you from selferror, which as you become more powerful will have greater and greater impact upon you and others.

接受责任，既你的回应能力。接受它，培养它，珍惜它，并欢迎它。它能让你变得强大。它能让你全心投入。它将为你带来你一直渴望的关系。这是你迫切需要的力量，而你现在正在学习如何为你自己获取这份力量。伴随这种赋权而来的，是赋权的条件——你要回应内识并跟随内识，你要克制所有并非源于内识的动机，你要对你自己保持客观，也要对你自己的动机保持客观，你要质疑你自己但不怀疑你自己，并且你要让你自己周围环绕着能够支持你内在内识显现的人，他们能够自由地告诉你他们自己的感知。这对你的幸福与发展至关重要。这将保护你免于自我错误的侵害，因为随着你变得更有力量，错误对你自己和他人的影响也会愈发巨大。

Accept responsibility today. Accept this, for it represents your truest and greatest need. Responsibility will enable you to love and extend yourself into the world.

今天接受责任。接受内识，因为它代表了你最真实和最伟大的需求。责任将使你能够去爱并将你自己延展到世界中去。

Upon the hour think of today’s idea. And as you enter meditation twice today, take full responsibility for being a student of Knowledge and enter into stillness and silence with your complete being. Let no thought or doubt dissuade you. Do not let ambivalence hold you back. Press onward. Open yourself. Enter the mystery of your life so that you may be able to respond to it, for this is the meaning of responsibility.

每小时思考今天的想法。当你进入两次冥想练习时，全然承担起成为内识学生的责任，以你的全部存在进入静止与静默。不要让任何思绪或疑惑劝阻你。不要让矛盾阻碍你。继续前行，打开你自己，进入你生命的神秘，以便你能够回应它，因为这就是责任的意义。

Practice 271: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

练习 271 ：两次 30 分钟的练习时段。每小时练习。